skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RT was outright banned by the EU after they invaded Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Responses – it's also been dropped/banned by most mainstream platforms.

I don't think you can compare Al Jazeera and RT, because one has been a firehose of bullshit that has literally advocates invasion of Ukraine, and the other does not. As far as I know, Al Jazeera is banned purely because they've been critical of current Israeli policy. There are some reasonable criticisms of Al Jazeera and things they could have done better, but that applies to every media outlet on the planet.
Lets not forget that the British Govt banned Russia Today from broadcasting in the UK a few years back. Such is their planning and manipulation of events on the global stage!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/18/will-ofcoms-de...

Notice a pattern with the British Govt? They get their "independent" depts and businesses to do their dirty work for deniability!
Alternatively, since different people have different thresholds for considering something to be antisemitic, there may often be things that are not flagged that others think should be, and vice versa. It's difficult to determine what the right threshold should be, but it often won't match the preference of the most sensitive users. If productive conversation is to happen, it may require some degree of discomfort.
Which is also a terrible name.
A brutal truth is that wealthy, upper class people have resources for training their kids that legitimately better prepare them for academic success than poorer kids.

The rich, smart kids in this example were Jews.
Related to your comment so much, I got hurt
Yes, the US is obsessed over race. That's because Americans are traumatized. I agree it's not a good thing. However, diversity in university admission is a good thing. There are many different ways to have diversity. Diversity is not easy to achieve and since it's sensitive topic it's often not done right.
I'll try to tackle this as objectively as possible.

Not many countries enshrine press freedom as a constitutional right. US can't directly shut down news agencies by law but there are other less direct ways to restrict their ability to operate (like not granting visas). The US has all sorts of fringe news outlets, including some run by cults like Falun Gong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television )

Europe likes to claim they support press freedom but they banned RT in many countries. Looking at the press freedom index my kneejerk is to rank a lot of their countries lower, but then I remembered there's a habit of suing or disappearing journalists in the US that probe into larger corps.

As for Russia/DPRK/China, laws heavily restrict reporting. These are all way worse than Israel's current restrictions. DPRK has fully centralized mass media, so any other reporting inside is illegal by default without explicit approval of the state. China and Russia I think allows some reporting, basically anything appearing critical of nations of China or Russia can get you jailed/killed.
Economists Aren't the Best at Predicting the Economy
to summarize: prompt engineering is hard, niche use cases often involve private data and specialized knowledge, and LLM ops is a heavy lift. Did i miss anything?
I play many turn-based strategy games, including chess and Polytopia. Polytopia is a really good game. If you miss Advance Wars on a GBA, you'll probably love it. It combines maneuvering and resource management in a way that, for example, Civ can't do. But, thinking that Polytopia is a more sophisticated or challenging game than chess is nuts. The article goes in to all the details, but it comes down to Polytopia is a pleasant game that is easy to master, like many similar games. I'm very good at it. But I am only slightly competent at chess while expending 10X the brainpower.
could you expand on your comment? what is data sinks as applied to your idea?
My father doesn't eat sweets. He has a very healthy diet - whole grains, vegetables, etc. Never had a cavity nor gum disease.
Because of that he never went to the dentist to have a check up.
He ended up loosing all his teeth from hardened plaque below the gum line.
His teeth just fell off, one after another, because he never learned good dental hygiene.
Or as I tell people, if you die, I'll have to maintain this, so I want to make sure I know what it's doing and why.
> Are we now so desperate to defend capitalism that we're going to pretend shareholder value isn't the primary goal

This kind of content isn't appropriate for HN.
Right, it's a limit at infinity
Buffett is hoarding $188B in cash in short term Tbills collecting 5.4%
I don't think anyone involved in a conflict really wants third party journalists around.

Look at the consequences for Snowden, Assange and Manning.

We probably need to mandate third party international journalist access as some kind of rules of war expectation.

Otherwise basically any war crime can be waged with impunity until well after the fact if you can cutoff access to discover it
There's plenty of Israeli media attacking the government day in and out. Haaretz, Yedioth, etc.

They were not closed because they're "criticizing the government". They were closed because they're acting on behalf of a foreign agent and spreading propaganda (I think the actual language "is harmed national security"). Qatar is not a free country, it funds Al-Jazeera, it hosts the Hamas leadership.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/

"Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks that were not corrected and misleading extreme editorial bias that favors Qatar."
My UKRI stipend is less than national minimum wage. And is also without any employer benefits. I'm lucky to have a spouse that supports me through it.

Many in the department are now struggling to attract new PhD researchers within the UK or Europe. And funding rules are restrictive to any interest from further afield.
Also note that this isn't a "let's learn to implement this thing that I already know works", where I already worked out all the problems and am just giving you a write-up that lets you skip to the final result...

We're going to get things wrong, planes are going to crash in myriad ways, and we'll discover how and why things go wrong, to hopefully figure out how we can navigate those problems. And we're going learn from our mistakes.

Including learning to throw away all the work we did because that's the right thing to do =)
AJ is far from bipartisan wrt to the conflict. they employ high journalistic standards for just about everything except israeli news, for that they become rapid dogs. example: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793560
But BRK way bigger too. Meaningless unless you control for size of firm
Mental note: hold off on considering taking SpaceX flights O_O!
Forest are good at classification but they cannot leverage pre-training on unclassified data.
AI is not going away.

The bubble might burst though when there are big break throughs by someone like OpenAI or google, as right now money is being thrown at anything with AI in the name, when those startups fail to deliver the bubble will burst and all the spoils will go to a few that actually are able to deliver, making the rest irrelevant.
its not a genocide by any definition.
There are also many other foreign journalists in Israel. Other than Al Jazeera there are no restrictions on foreign media from operating in Israel. Certainly not western foreign media.
Is this some kind of rhetorical question? Qatar is the main funder of Hamas regime. And hosting Hamas leadership. They fund Hamas more than Iran, according to Israeli intelligence (which may be wrong but that’s the source we have)
"Banning them from the EU was certainly in our interest."

It is not in my interest, to become more like authorian russia for the sake of fighting them.
How big a share of Palestinian media consumption does Al Jazeera have? As in, do the residents of Gaza treat it as the main news source?

The reason for asking is because a poll[0] of Palestinians says “90% believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians during its October the 7th offensive. Only one in five Palestinians has seen videos showing atrocities committed by Hamas.”

So is it Al Jazeera’s fault that Palestinians have not seen the evidence and seem not to think 10/7 was all that problematic? One assumes that if such deliberate distortion/omission was normal practice at Al Jazeera, Israel would be able to clearly point to it. But the justification for the ban is a pretty vague concern about national security.

[0] https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/969
They do censor research on the opposite of their viewpoint, though. Which further reinforces their impression that they are right. We’re back to 1590 in terms of civilizational evolution.
> Words are not knifes. People eventually will adapt to lies and weird things. And truth will find a way.

I really see it differently that both ends are equally bad. After all, on the same night that the BBC announced 500 dead after the "bombing" at a hospital in Gaza, which turned out to be a Hamas missile that fell and killed at most 50 there... crowds took to the streets and created a threat to Israeli embassies around the world.
It isn't that wild, really, that people who have even the most basic awareness of history are concerned about the spread of the single most destructive ideology in all of history.
actually, i am not assuming that anyone is malicious here, and i am observing that even without anyone being at fault, the lack of tenant protection puts the tenant at a disadvantage. and that disadvantage is what i intended to address.

if a tenant is malicious then none of this discussion is even relevant, because we no longer need to consider the expectations of the tenant. if they damaged the property, sue them to get them to pay for the fix, or do whatever you need to make the problem go away.

but if they are just a harmless nuisance, well then, tough luck. until the landlord provides a good reason for the eviction, i'll side with the tenant. have you had to find an apartment to rent on short notice before? two months is not enough. i'd need half a year.
I may be an outlier here, but I'm always pushing back against generalization. When someone reviews a PR and asks me to extract an interface (in case we need to change this step?) I find it really annoying. I know some people think that way first, and it's not really the point of the article, but still.
Your statement (which I happen to agree with) supports DEI policies but not the specific practice of requiring a written DEI statement, which is the important distinction OP made.

I think you can be for DEI as a concept and as a corporate or school policy, but against the performative act of writing it out as some kind of weird "pledge of allegiance" in a job application.
And then the email has a “noreply” address. Earlier this year I had a whole conversation iteratively submitting the same unidirectional contact form for each turn of dialogue.
I have two plugs in use that ship to EU (at least NL) and are made (or at least certified) in the EU. The latter matters to me because of fire hazards etc (e.g. [1]). Both can handle 16A and connect over zigbee which helps to reduce idle power consumption.
1. Innr plugs, e.g. SP240 https://www.innr.com/en/product/innr-smart-plug-eu-with-powe...
2. Robb zigbee smart plug https://www.robbshop.nl/robb-smarrt-slimme-stekker-zigbee-36...

[1] https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/just-how-dodgy-are-cheap-usb...
Espressif has a huge advantage in lead times over ST recently. I migrated a few projects over because ST couldn't or wouldn't give us supply in under a month when you could buy ESP chips and have them on your doorstep practically overnight.
…the fact that the behaviour you describe is precisely not how Apple works is the reason I am their customer.
Forensic Recommendations
I have a friend who believes all of his devices including android phones, windows desktops, and even a mac have been "hacked". He's not a very technical person and I'm not physically able to evaluate his situation, nor do I know anything about the discipline of digital forensics.

Could anyone recommend a firm or person that investigates and reports on these types of incursions? Not looking for legal-level reporting (or cost), just someone who can give a comprehensive analysis.
I like linkedin. It got me my current job. I get a constant stream of recruiters looking for people in my field; if I want a new job I'm pretty sure I can just reply to a few of them and not have to actually apply at all.

Just don't read any of the nonsense that people post.
Sincere question: what was propaganda about it? Was it openly anti semitic blood libel stuff? Debunked claims? Or something else?
Maybe the “actual” news should be rebranded to “fake news” in rebuttal.
Russian government literally assassinated or tried to assassinate several people in British territory. That the Russian government's propaganda arm hadn't been given the boot after these spectacular acts of bad faith demonstrates that the UK government perhaps has slightly more dedication to press freedom than you're suggesting.
>And no one seems to be ready to let Germany lead

Including the Germans.
Remainder after division is one. E.g. 12 mod 4 = 0. There's no way to reverse that operation given only the output and the modulus. (x mod 4 = 0 has infinite solutions)

Bitwise operators are another. A & B, A | B, A << B, A >> B are all in general not invertible given the output and B. (e.g. A | 1 = 1, is A 0 or 1?)

Now I haven't looked at the language in detail, maybe there's a way around this, but it sounds like if truly every single operation is invertible, then there would be no way to calculate these simple functions.
+Virtual machines

+Automated testing (much newer?)
Are they generally rewarded? Wondering is there are statistics on that because the narrative is usually that defenders end up unable to compete even with technologies they themselves invented and die out, with maybe apple and Microsoft recently breaking that trend.
> RT was heavily censored in the USA

Source?
if problem:
solve_problem()

There, problem solved!
Granary: The Social Web Translator
Two wrongs don't make a right.

AI being weaponized on the application side hurts us all, and leads to an environment that's extremely difficult to get noticed in as a job seeker. Yes, networking helps but that's not always possible, especially if you are trying to change industries or have generally worked with smaller companies where your networking doesn't expand out much.

It also leads to less diverse environments where hiring managers only look at resumes given by friends or friends of friends.
still waiting for the LLM driven 3d avatar robot voice during my 10th hr zoom interview "can you eve scale bro? Can you even AWS firehose kafka kubernetes bro? Good! now show me how the minimum subsequence of this array in Ologn"
At my first job, we had a perl script to transform json into a yaml inventory file (it then allowed us to serve a form to clients that would act as a yaml, but i left a bit before the feature was implemented). We still had to write our module in yaml though.

Still, the greybeard who come up with the initial design and architecture was the best dev i've ever worked with, to this day. I wasn't ready to learn as much as i ought to do, sadly.
Bad programmers are already pretty obsolete. My team had a very motivated but also pretty bad programmer that I always wished I could fire. When he finally left our velocity went up a lot. He was delivering negative value to the project but management liked him because he was like a model obedient student, doing allergen agile shit to the T. He unfortunately had zero feel for code and didn’t learn anything from code reviews. I always likened it to a cook with no sense of taste. You can follow a recipe but if you need to improvise anything by yourself you would be pretty lost with no value function to apply
A paper [1] we wrote in 2015 (cited by the authors) uses some more sophisticated data structures (compressed suffix trees) and Kneser–Ney smoothing to get the same "unlimited" context. I imagine with better smoothing and the same larger corpus sizes as the authors use this could improve on some of the results the authors provide.

Back then neural LMs were just beginning to emerge and we briefly experimented with using one of these unlimited N-gram models for pre-training but never got any results.

[1] https://aclanthology.org/D15-1288.pdf
Qatar is not exactly a belligerent but it hosts the Hamas leadership. It has been funding Hamas and other groups. It (partly) funds Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera is considered by some to be its PR/Propaganda arm and has a low standard for factual reporting - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/
> TikTok wasn't banned explicitly. They are required to divest within a year. If they don't, then the app becomes banned

Note, too, the difference between the app being banned and the source being banned. TikTok.com will continue to resolve even if they remain under Chinese control.
I have to say that recruiters are worthless to me because they don't have the authority to actually decide something. They know nothing about the role, they don't disclose their salary range, I don't trust them with mine either.. but hey, if it's a short call, it a hoop you have to jump through.

At least the company recruiters never call you again.
You can think what you want but to act like this is undisputed is a bit silly.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/26/israel-not-complying-wor...
so that's how react was made
Dice was very nice - and later on vbcc was pretty cool, too. In fact vbcc is so nice I used it for a toy CPU project a couple of years ago, because its backend interface is unusually well-documented and accessible. (I think tangling with either gcc or llvm would likely have added another six months to the project.)
The implications are bizarre here. Only software/database impacted by this change is something custom for the city, anything more widely used must handle apostrophes etc anyways because other places have them too. And also this being a change now implies that whatever custom software in question is something new, because any old software must have been dealing with these street names with apostrophes.

So first question in my mind is what/why is this software that they are attempting to accommodate??? Or is this all just based on misinterpretation of the mentioned BS7666 and nobody thought to check it??
“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”
Perhaps one needs a specific genetic disposition to even notice good design. I immediately knew what OP meant and I also unpacked Google and Samsung products; it’s not the same thing. Nobody managed to match the way Apples design language is coherent from the moment I open the lid of the box all the way to the UI.
From TFA:

> This is now less that 15 years away and plenty of system that will have problems have already been shipped. We should stop adding to the problem. Most computing, especially computing using Debian or its derivatives, is now done on 64-bit hardware where this issue does not arise.

The goal is to support 64 bit time on 32 bit systems.

> We are doomed.

We really aren't. Y2K was a big nothingburger despite the media scaremongering.

64 bit systems are already nearly everywhere. As TFA states: most distros don't even bother supporting 32 bit hardware anymore. They simply don't.

Are there going to be tiny Internet-of-shitty-insecure-Things devices out there failing in 2038? Very likely. Nuclear powerplants failing, nuclear warheads launched by mistake and lab doors wrongly opened (from labs where they do GoF research on deadly viruses)? Nope. Not gonna happen.
Sounds great, would love to hear more about your method.
What about weed btw ?
Microsoft didn’t miss out on the web. They won it so thoroughly that they assumed it was theirs to keep and stopped competing.
Bollards are fantastic technology: cheap to manufacture, easy to install, and life-saving (both in terms of crashes and also forcing drivers off of curbs, crosswalks, &c.).

It's a shame that so many US cities are focused on installing pseudo-bollards and flexible strips of plastic, rather than putting down permanent protections for cyclists and pedestrians. One recent example of this is NYC's Gowanus[1]: they're redeveloping the area for residential use, including bike lanes and daylighting down 4th avenue (historically a high-volume, industrial avenue). But these bike lanes and daylight zones are protected only by plastic bollards, which even a sedan can comfortably park over.

[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans-studi...
The problem is, if you look at 2023, they only count 50 deaths in the barometer.

Something is definitely amiss, see my peer comment
No doubt both sides have propoganda, but for anyone who watches AJ, literally every news piece every 15 minute covers Gaza so much so its mind numbing. I'm also yet to see any balance on it.

Are they telling lies? Maybe not.

Are they partial? Yes.
> RT was heavily censored in the USA

How heavily has RT been censored in the USA? Has the government ever censored it or pressured others to censor it, or is it just that links/rebroadcasts have been dropped by private entities of their own volition?
Bollards are also good ideas to prevent intentional terrorist acts of driving cars into pedestrian areas, https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/terrorist-truck-attack-sho....
It’s a standard behaviour in theocracies. Being against the Al-Sauds means being against Islam (according to the Saudi government), other governments do that too. Being against Trump is being against Christianism (according to Republican fundamentalists, hopefully those won’t end up in the cabinet again).

The State props up the religion by normalising it and undermining its competition, and the religion props up the state by providing convenient pretexts and effective brainwashing mechanisms. I am not Jewish, but I find it particularly disgusting too. My sympathies to humanist Jews who are thrown into this nightmare.
The Case for Capital Controls
> If a news is from a Hamas official spokesman, it's likely true

What? They lie constantly! They just got caught. Here is what happened when BBC just reported them without checking:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67140250

And then when they apologized admitting they should have not speculate:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/israel-accuses...
In USSR, nobody was rich.
> because it's hard doesn't mean it shouldn't be an option

I hope it's not. Trolls aside, I've found HN's discussion on this topic to be interesting.

For example, this comment [1]. I hadn't considered belligerent status as a relevant factor before. (It's obvious once pointed out, and not a decisive factor. But it has weight nevertheless.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40268043
It is easy to observe that this "rule" is false. Even though everyone pronounces it "thomases", some spell that "Thomas's", others spell it "Thomas'". It is a purely stylistic spelling difference, and both forms are in common use, in literate environments. So, there is no one rule about how this word is spelled. And since neither form reflects the pronunciation, both are purely conventional, they don't have a much deeper meaning to lean on.
How many 32 bit time-dependent systems running 15 year old Linux do you think there will be in 2038? It's going to be a handful at most.
> but is instead a rather Debian-specific problem

It is Debian specific because Debian is one of the rare distro which keeps supporting 32 bit systems. The others don't even bother, it's all 64 bit now, where the year 2038 problem doesn't exist at all.
> Qatar is the main funder of Hamas regime

Iran is Hamas' main backer. Qatar funded Hamas with Israel's consent, so it's not really fair to hold this against Doha. (Their continuing to host Hamas' leadership is fair to criticise.)
I've seen many one-button clocks that just either increment faster or change increment to a larger value if you hold.